The fall semester produced 85 student athletes with grade-point averages above 3.5 — each winning recognition from a phone-service provider. Each year, student athletes from select schools are honored by Verizon Telecommunications for their academic...

Beginning tonight, the NIU wrestling team will face its toughest weekend before the Mid-American Conference championships in March. The Huskies take on Central Michigan University tonight and the University of Northern Iowa on Sunday. Both are ranked...

For Saturday's game, the NIU basketball team is grateful to be back home, but will have its hands full against a Central Michigan team on a roll. With the Huskies 0-13 on the road this year, they'll play a short homestand of three games starting at 1...

Leshon Johnson has taken on cancer, played in one of the toughest divisions in all of sports and run over opponents at NIU. After all that, the XFL's no-fair-catch rule should be no problem. "It's going to make it very interesting," said the Chicago Enforcers...

When a team starts measuring its ability by its margin of victory, it must be good. Two weeks ago the NIU hockey team defeated Southern Illinois by 5. Coach Bill Thorn said that wasn't nearly good enough. So when the Huskies faced SIU again last Saturday...

Harnessing a no-bull attitude, NIU basketball's 6-foot-9-inch center Matt Nelson is large and in charge. But by his modest demeanor, you would never know it. In an age of prima donnas, Nelson puts on his hardhat and goes to work night in and night out,...

NIU women's basketball coach Carol Hammerle knew in order to come out with a victory Wednesday night her post defense was going to have to play well. It did. The Huskies came away with their fourth victory in a row after defeating Buffalo 63-55. The road...

Before a player can make it to The Show, he needs to give a final audition. For NFL teams, that means they will tour college campuses, allowing players to throw everything out one last time. The Miami Dolphins stopped NIU last week, and the Chicago Bears...

Kirby Puckett's name is synonymous with baseball, but what if he chose a career on the basketball hardwood instead? Twenty years ago, NIU associate athletic director Robert Collins put to rest any of those thoughts for the Hall of Famer. As the varsity...

The NIU hockey club defeated Southern Illinois at Edwardsville with great ease, winning 15-4. The 15 goals were the most this season. The last time NIU scored more than 10 goals in a game was against Washington University at St. Louis, when the Huskies...

Two weeks ago, the NIU women's basketball team was coming off two consecutive double-digit losses. The Huskies, however, recovered by sweeping their recent three-game homestand. Coming into the homestand, NIU sat at 2-2 in the Mid-American Conference...

Waubonsee Community College head coach Dave Heiss has made a decision, called time and examined more than 500 games in his 16-year career. He also has his team nationally ranked among junior colleges and is a newly named candidate for the head coaching...